Friday, May 19, 2006

Editors’ Note

Over Winter Carnival, students broke out the rainboots to slosh through brown puddles on the Green. Three months later, not much has changed. Our much-anticipated weekend of alcohol-saturated fun in the sun will probably be more like alcohol-saturated fun under a tent. More »

Internet celebrity, Playboy model Jenn Sterger to lecture at Psi U

By Matthew Abbott, The Dartmouth Staff

Model and Internet celebrity Jenn Sterger will make an appearance at Psi Upsilon fraternity this Saturday as part of a programming event to raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. More »

AD, Phi Delt continue outdoor party traditions, rain or shine

By Hillary Wool, The Dartmouth Staff

Whereas Homecoming and Winter Carnival weekends feature nighttime parties as their social staple, Green Key plays host to elaborate outdoor festivities on Friday and Saturday afternoons. Phi Delta Alpha fraternity’s traditional block party and Alpha Delta fraternity’s lawn party regularly draw thousands of students and community members. More »

Safety and Security officers, professors reminisce on Green Key’s wild past

By Rebekah Rombom, The Dartmouth Staff

Students may be looking forward to cutting loose and enjoying some springtime revelry this weekend, but the Green Key weekends of the past were even more prone to “Animal House”-esque behaviors, according to some College faculty and staff. More »

Green Key Society performs small role during weekend

While the history of Green Key weekend and its namesake organization go hand in hand, the Green Key Society currently plays a minor role in the weekend of traditions and debauchery. More »

Green Key weekend steers clear of Tubestock-like liability

By Phil Salinger, The Dartmouth Staff

With no bonfire, polar bear swim or drunken rafting, Green Key weekend, marked more by outdoor bands and parties, presents fewer legal liabilities and “town-gown” tension than do Dartmouth’s other raucous weekends. More »

Cornell, Vanderbilt host similar spring weekend celebrations

By Zach Swiss, The Dartmouth Staff

While everything about Green Key is quintessentially Dartmouth, the Big Green is not the only college with a distinct spring festival. At schools across the nation, study-weary students eagerly anticipate fun and frivolity in the brightening spring weather. More »

Pre-coed Green Key featured sleepovers, bus loads of women

In the era before coeducation, Dartmouth men’s reputation for drinking and debauchery was widespread,. During big weekends like Green Key, when the campus was flooded with alumni and, more importantly, females, the men of Dartmouth were given the opportunity to either disprove or perpetuate this reputation. The direction they opted for is up for debate, according to some alumni and past Green Key attendees. More »

Weekend’s long history includes chariot races, piano smashing

By Dan Duray, The Dartmouth Staff

Since the dawn of time, human civilizations have welcomed the transition from the cold winter to the fertile spring with various festivals, usually involving celebrations of the most bacchanalian and hedonistic aspects of life. More »

Festival of Humanity offers alternative to Greek parties

The third-annual Festival of Humanity this Saturday will provide the Dartmouth community and the Upper Valley with a day of family fun, great music and free barbecue in the name of a noble cause. More »

Cords to celebrate 10-year anniversary with reunion show

By Christine Paquin, The Dartmouth Staff

The Dartmouth Cords will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a reunion show entitled “10 years of cool pants and music” at 8 p.m. this Saturday at the Top of the Hop. The event will feature the debut of a new song as well as a “mockumentary” behind-the-scenes video. More »

Alumni recollect wild, different Green Key weekends

By Ashley Zuzek, The Dartmouth Staff

While the face of Dartmouth may have changed over the years, Green Key is still the same as it has always been — a weekend for good music, spring weather and true Animal House-style fun. More »

Alpha Phi Alpha to celebrate centennial in annual Step Show

Though students will flood Greek houses this weekend for Green Key festivities, many members of the Dartmouth community await a special Greek performance outside of fraternity house walls: the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Step Show. Continuing in the celebration of Alpha Phi Alpha centennial, the show will be in Leede Arena this Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and promises to be bigger and more explosive than those of past years. More »

Outing Club, other organizations offer alternatives to Greek weekend scene

By Katy O'Donnell, The Dartmouth Staff

Hundreds of students will no doubt flock to the block party on Webster Avenue or the lawn party at Alpha Delta fraternity this weekend, but if sipping beers and listening to sweet music on a (most likely wet) lawn is not really your thing, there are plenty of non-Greek events planned for this year’s Green Key. More »

AIDS Workcrew to hold memorial, hopes to raise awareness on campus

By Elliot Mattingly, The Dartmouth Staff

The AIDS Workcrew, a Dartmouth AIDS awareness organization that is part of the Tucker Foundation, will hold a commemorative event this Sunday as part of the Global Health Council’s 2006 International AIDS Candlelight Memorial. More »

Alumni Council to convene, vote on alumni constitution overhaul

By Alex Belser, The Dartmouth Staff

After years of debate, Dartmouth’s alumni “senate” will vote this Green Key Weekend on a proposed overhaul of the alumni government. More »